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The Patents (Amendment) Act, 1999 (Act No. 17 of 1999), India
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Year of Version
1999
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Enacted:
March 26, 1999
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Main IP Laws
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Patents (Inventions)
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The Patents (Amendment) Act, 1999 is the first of three amendments to the Patents Act of 1970 to bring India’s patent regime into compliance with the WTO TRIPs Agreement. It provides for the filing of applications (date stamping) for product patents in the areas of drugs, pharmaceuticals, and agro-chemicals even though such patents were not yet allowed at the time this Act was passed.
This Act entered into force on January 1, 1995, with retrospective effect, in accordance with its subsection (2) under section 1.
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